Zara Larsson took to TikTok to express her shock at realising the true meaning of 2002 hit ‘The Ketchup Song’.
The lyrics to the noughties anthem aren’t all in Spanish - the chorus is a recreation of the 1979 seminal hip-hop track, ‘Rapper’s Delight’ by the Sugar Hill Gang.
Larsson explained how the song’s lyrics reference a man who asks a DJ to play his favourite song at midnight - but he can’t think of the name and instead sings his own, incorrect, version of the song. The chorus to ‘The Ketchup Song’ is this version of ‘Rapper’s Delight’, though it is quite far removed from the original.
The lyrics to the noughties anthem aren’t all in Spanish - the chorus is a recreation of the 1979 seminal hip-hop track, ‘Rapper’s Delight’ by the Sugar Hill Gang.
Larsson explained how the song’s lyrics reference a man who asks a DJ to play his favourite song at midnight - but he can’t think of the name and instead sings his own, incorrect, version of the song. The chorus to ‘The Ketchup Song’ is this version of ‘Rapper’s Delight’, though it is quite far removed from the original.
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00:00 Every European knows this song
00:02 *sings*
00:04 And they are right next to me here
00:06 At the show that I'm playing
00:08 But you wanna know a funny story
00:10 Which I didn't know
00:12 Which to me is so mind blowing
00:14 Back in my hotel room
00:16 Let me tell you why this song is like
00:18 Has levels, it's levels to sh*t
00:20 Okay? So
00:22 I didn't grow up speaking Spanish
00:24 Like, I know a word or two
00:26 Por favor
00:28 Gracias
00:30 Senorita
00:32 But I just thought the whole song was in Spanish
00:34 Including the chorus
00:36 But it's not
00:38 It's only the verses
00:40 And in the verses they're saying
00:42 There's this guy, his name is Diego
00:44 He wants to go out and dance
00:46 And at midnight, like he goes up to the DJ
00:48 And he tells the DJ, at midnight I want my favorite song
00:50 I want my tune to be played
00:52 And it goes like this
00:54 *sings*
00:56 It's not even a language
00:58 Like it's not Spanish
01:00 It's not nothing
01:02 It's not anything
01:04 But it is a song
01:06 And you know which song Diego wants to have the DJ playing at midnight?
01:08 *laughs*
01:10 *music*
01:12 Pause
01:22 *sings*
01:24 Shut up
01:26 Shut up
01:28 It's- shut up
01:30 Diego's favorite song
01:32 Is Rapper's Delight
01:34 He wants to hear Rapper's Delight
01:36 At 12 o'clock
01:38 On the dot
01:40 *laughs*
01:42 I just think it's so smart